In this month's IEEE Spectrum magazine (a geek trade publication for electrical engineers) there is an article about a sports car called the VENTURI FÉTISH. The car has a 241-horsepower, all-electric motor and will do 0-60 in about 4.5 seconds. Top speed -- only 105 mph.

Here is the article:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/mar05/0305car.html

Here is a picture:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/mar05/0305carf6.jpg

At the end of the article they state the following:

Venturi uses AC Propulsion's drive and battery systems in the Fétish—essentially the same technology that is going into another AC Propulsion project: all-electric conversions of Toyota's boxy, utilitarian Scion xA and xB vehicles.

I thought the xB was going to be discontinued. Has anyone else heard of an electric Scion in the works?

By the way, this is a pretty reputable magazine and they usually get their facts right.

And for anyone interested in buying the venturi...it costs about $700,000!!!

700k??? no thanks

t2B is coming out...maybe thats whats going to be in it

It says conversions not productions. This tells me that Venturi will make the conversion not Toyota. Kinda like Saleen Mustangs

That makes sense. Thanks.

What a beautiful piece of machinery. 700K, thats pocket change :P

Yeah, I'll take two.

all electric would be hot... but I wonder what the range on those conversions would be...

not just that ... where would we go to get recharges... I definately haven't seen anything resembling electric car support in NY

0-60 in 4.5 seconds / top speed 105mph??

So you would hit top speed in what, 7 seconds? :eyebrow:

-THE DON

all electric?

wonder how much the electric bill would be?